cognitive coaching and Academic potential
I teach students of all ages how to optimise cognitive performance to study, Learn and realise their academic potential.
What is Cognitive Coaching?
Cognitive performance simply means how well our brain functions - this includes how well different brain regions work together.
Cognitive coaching means teaching students how to optimise the various elements of brain function and build fluency between brain regions.
Tim Connell - Founder
The specific metrics of brain function include selective and sustained attention (concentration), working memory, encoding, retrieval and executive functioning.
These ‘top down’ cognitive skills work together with ‘bottom up’ sensory data processing to help us make sense of the world around us.
The most successful students understand these processes in the same way that the most successful F1 drivers understand the finely tuned mechanical functioning of their cars.
As students, they stand out because they’re goal directed, confident and equipped with the knowledge and tools to enable the best version of themselves.
I teach these skills through explicit modelling and practice with feedback until each is understood and applied at mastery level.
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academic potential
‘We all have hidden potential, we just don’t know how to unlock it. Raw ability is less important than motivation and opportunity - in particular having access to the tools you need to improve.’
Dr Adam Grant
I work with students to awaken cognitive and academic potential. This begins with helping them to understand their mindset - how they perceive themselves as students and how this perception informs their engagement with learning and study.
Despite what the media like to portray, this is wonderful time to be in education - advances in brain imaging have informed cognitive neuroscience to a point where we now understand in detail how information is taken in, encoded, stored, retrieved and used.
We also know that teaching students about their own thinking (metacognition) is key to building self efficacy and motivation. The teaching and acquisition of these skills is enhanced by the increased neuroplasticity and pruning that occur as part of adolescent brain development.
These understandings inform every aspect of what I do. Helping students to optimise all elements of thinking (cognition) and study to redefine themselves as successful, well rounded learners and architects of their own lives.
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